{"product_id":"queering-romantic-engagement-in-the-pamela-vanhaitsma-9781643366081","title":"Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRomantic letters are central to understanding queer history. Debates about letters of \"romantic friendship,\" however, too often reduce them to unstudied expressions of heartfelt feeling. In\u003ci\u003e Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Pamela VanHaitsma shows how the genre should be understood as a learned form of rhetoric. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanHaitsma argues that epistolary instruction in the nineteenth-century United States shaped civic engagement in predictably heteronormative ways even as it opened up possibilities for queer rhetorical practices. Her archival study draws on writings whose authors, diverse by gender, race, class, and education, all developed ways of queering cultural norms and generic conventions in their same-sex relationships. VanHaitsma theorizes a new concept of rhetorical education for romantic engagement to account for the significant yet understudied role of such training in inventing both civic and romantic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela Vanhaitsma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643366084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643366081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Pamela Vanhaitsma","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47203001630975,"sku":"9781643366081","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_463ebd52-0889-464e-a78b-c047e15b9ba8.jpg?v=1756834024","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queering-romantic-engagement-in-the-pamela-vanhaitsma-9781643366081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}